The Equal Rights Amendment died another death Thursday after the Senate failed to muster the votes needed to resuscitate it.
Republicans successfully filibustered to block a measure that would have declared the ERA fully ratified and officially the 28th Amendment of the Constitution, despite the fact that the deadline on ratification expired decades ago.
“We must act now because the Equal Rights Amendment has never been more necessary than today,” the New York Democrat said. The ERA’s key text reads: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” In 2017, Nevada belatedly voted for approval, followed by Illinois in 2018 and Virginia in 2020. ERA backers said that was enough to put them over, but that argument has been rejected by federal courts that have ruled the deadline has passed.“The states did the work, but just not in the required time that was imposed on them a very long time ago,” he said.
Chief among those is the actual number of states that have ratified. At least four states that did vote to ratify the ERA actually passed resolutions revoking that ratification before the 1979 deadline passed. A fifth state passed a resolution making clear that its ratification expired at the deadline.
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